Warning : "This program can only run for 808 minutes"
Whatever happened to the days when we got weird and wonderful error messages? When i moved to the current application i am working on (port from ASP/VB6 to .Net) there was actually an error message saying "You cannot possibly be this old" when someone entered a data of birth making them over 100 years old. As it is a government training system for schoolleavers and adults getting into work, you may argue someone over 100 is probably too old (although i'm sure we all had that kid in the class who was repeating the year for the 6th time due to never attending). Anyone know of a blogger over 100??
Anyway, where did this all come from? Well, logging into my machine this morning i got this extremely specific warning:
Does it mean it was running for 809 minutes? "This program cannot possibly run for more than 808 minutes".
Is it a new kind of key activation? Aha, maybe my 808 minute trial period has run out?
So now rather than setting my date back in normal days when my activation runs out (of course i have never done that!), I need to use fractions of time, specifically "13.466666666666666666666666666667" hours.
Any ideas on what the 808 might stand for?? There was a techno group called "808 State" years ago - maybe they bought Sophos?
Steven
PS. the most likely reason is that one of the network drives it checks was offline and so it just kind of hung... but interesting way of telling me!